Foreign participation in insurance markets is related to various streams of literature, including foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade in insurance services. Only a few papers have examined the potential role of FDI in insurance services. Similar to the banking literature, some papers have explained the factors contributing to foreign entry in a single country or the determinants of FDI-preferred locations. Other papers have examined the impact of foreign entry on the host country sector or the relationship with insurance development and insurance market activities. Our purpose is to review the empirical literature on the relationship between FDI and insurance services.

外国参与保险市场与各种各样的文献有关，包括外国直接投资（FDI）和保险服务的国际贸易。只有几篇论文研究了外国直接投资在保险服务中的潜在作用。与银行业文献类似，一些论文也解释了导致外国人进入单个国家的因素或外国直接投资优先地区的决定因素。其他论文研究了外国进入对东道国部门的影响或与保险发展和保险市场活动的关系。我们的目的是回顾有关外国直接投资与保险服务之间关系的经验文献。